Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

New RFC Considers .sex TLD Dangerous

Posted by michael on from the sex-with-sue-almost-as-dangerous dept.

netcentric writes "A post on CircleID has reported about an RFC prepared by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd and Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com's Washington D.C. correspondent, analyzing proposals from various parties to mandate the use of special top level domain names (such as .sex or .xxx) or an IP address bit to flag 'adult' or 'unsafe' material or the like. The analysis explains why these ideas are dangerous and ill considered from legal, philosophical, and technical points of view. Here is the post to this report on CircleID along with some commentaries and link to the entire RFC 3675."

13 of 421 comments (clear)

  1. Lieberman by kundor · · Score: 4, Funny

    At first blush I would consider this a good idea, but seeing that Lieberman endorsed it, I'm forced to knee-jerk the other way.

  2. Adult Bit and Evil bit? by Nashirak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now would this "adult bit" be incorporated into the evil bit? Or what?

    1. Re:Adult Bit and Evil bit? by aanand · · Score: 5, Funny

      HOT PACKET ON SERVER ACTION! Click here for FREE ACCESS to streaming video of dirty packets penetrating badly-configured firewalls!!!

      --

      Bow, nigger. h
  3. Adult bit? Don't the have that already? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Sticky Bit?

  4. hahah by crayz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just told someone at work about this, and he said ".sex? What would that be for...porn sites?"

    Lets just say I should hope so

  5. Amazon.sex by superpulpsicle · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about you, but it certainly gives new meaning to some already existing sites.

    tomshardware.sex

    slashdot.sex

    irs.sex

    gateway.sex

    Internet's about to get real interesting.

  6. Thread title by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 4, Funny

    At first I read it as .sex STD.

    Now _that_ would be a dangerous series of websites.

    wbs.

    --
    Huh?
  7. Obligatory Scrubs Quote by igrp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the internet there'd only be one website left and it'd be called "BringbackthePorn.com".

  8. Slippery slope by waynemcdougall · · Score: 4, Funny
    I knew this would happen. You kids with your whiles and fors and do untils....you've brought this all on yourselves.

    Yes, yes you were all happy when the GOTO was considered harmful. But it didn't stop there. Oh no. I warned you, I did.

    And now see where it's led? Sex considered harmful!

    Bring back the GOTO before it is too late!

    --
    Recycle PCs and build a wireless community network www.hillsborough.org.nz
  9. Yes! by fluxrad · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm all in favor of this kind of TLD.

    Preferably something easy to type with one hand.

    --
    "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
  10. ddd? by good(k)night · · Score: 4, Funny

    i agree. just hope that DDD will have homepage at http://www.ddd.xxx/
    that will be fun.

    --
    my endian is bigger than yours!
  11. Re:I've never thought this was a good idea... by El · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorta makes you nostalgic for a president that was doing it to his intern instead of doing it to the country, doesn't it?

    --

    "Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney

  12. Some UK adverts by Zeinfeld · · Score: 4, Funny
    Warning, guaranteed to anoy Ashcroft

    Ad #1 Ad #2 Ad #3

    --
    Looking for an Information Security student project suggestion?
    Try http://dotcrimeManifesto.com/